Wednesday, June 1, 2016

@SEA #8: "CURSES" w/ Kraning, Moriarty, Sequeira & White

The eighth edition of @SEA, the Poetic Research
Bureau's monthly live magazine, concludes its spring season with a
calling down of the theme of curses: bad luck, bad lots, hexes and
misfortune; low speech, profanities, brought down trouble and
malediction. A quartet of ensorcellement at 951 Chung King Rd in
Chinatown!

Laura Kraning’s moving image work navigates landscape as a
repository for memory, cultural mythology, and the technological sublime.
Exploring absence and the fluidity of time, she evokes liminal spaces of
neither past, nor present, but a landscape of the imagination. Laura’s work has
screened widely at international film
festivals, such as New York, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, Antimatter,
Visions du Réel, and Festival du Nouveau Cinema, among others. Laura
currently teaches in the Program in Film and Video at California Institute of
the Arts. Tracing the metaphysical undercurrents of a Southern California landscape
scarred by fire, her film Devil's Gate unearths a subconscious of
the landscape, as the echoes of the past reverberate in the present and infect
our perception and experience of place.

LauraMoriarty lives in the East Bay. Her recent books are Fugitive Notebook from Couch Press, Who That Divines and A Tonalist, from Nightboat, A Semblance, Selected Poetry 1976-2007 from Omnidawn and the novel Ultravioleta
from Atelos. She has taught at Mills College, Naropa University and
elsewhere and is currently Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution.

Jessica Sequeira, originally from California, attended Harvard and
Cambridge, and now lives in Buenos Aires. She has published essays,
stories and translations in The Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of
Books, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Modern Poetry in
Translation, Berfrois, Litro Magazine, Palabras Errantes, The Missing
Slate, Ventana Latina and other publications. Her version of
the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi's short stories will be published
by Dalkey Archive Press later this year, and her collection of Bolivian poetry
is out with Smokestack Books in 2017.

BenWhite is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles and is host of art and culture show "The People" on KCHUNG radio 1630AM. Take Away Their Victory is
a performance exercise in ancient world curses and binding spells, and
will allow an opportunity for viewers to ostracize a member of the Los
Angeles community for ten years.

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About the Bureau

The Poetic Research Bureau is a valise fiction and portable literary service in Northeast Los Angeles.

Our living room at 951 Chung King Rd in Chinatown hosts an extended community of autodidacts and guessworkers caught up in language, inquiry and the unguarded arts. Just as it is: a community free school by day, and by night, a non-professional public forum for presentations, readings, screenings and sundry intellectual exchanges.

As an out-of-pocket California milk-crate boosterist enterprise, the PRB also serves as the irregular literary umbrella for projects such as occasional poetry journal The Germ ('97-'05), edited by Andrew Maxwell and Macgregor Card; and art-lit mag Area Sneaks, edited by Rita Gonzalez and Joseph Mosconi.

As a research bloc, the Bureau attempts to cultivate composition, publication and distribution strategies that enlarge the public domain. It favors appropriations, impersonations, 'compost' poetries, belated conversations, unprintable jokes and doodles, 'unoriginal' literature, historical thefts and pastiche. The publication emphasis is on ephemeral works, short-run magazines and folios, short-lived reprints and excerpts in print-on-demand formats, and the occasional literary fetish objects of stupidly incomparable price and value.

Several reading series are hosted at 951 CKR, and we welcome writers whose work lacks the 'commercial tendency' while harboring the bright, high-minded intentions that often lead to broad panic, righteous perversions, improbable arguments, and the ill-served cul-de-sacs of genius. The series are coordinated by the aforementioned Messrs Maxwell and Mosconi. If you're sympatico, passing through town, or need a megaphone, 50 seats and a big blank space, give us a write.